have you with us. again. but it. may be from. rebels together with reports that. syria. position middle east correspondent. what we've witnessed now is five days of increasing conflict along the turkish syrian border at the same time we've seen shelling now taking place from both sides and there's real concern in the region that we could be looking at a full scale war between turkey and syria it started last week wednesday when

a shell was fired from the syrian side into turkish territory and they were killed five members of the same family now the turkish prime minister erdogan has gone on record by saying that his country is ready for war and this follows the approval of a mandate last week by the turkish parliament in which they did give the green light for cross border operations but it's not as if the whole turkish population is behind the prime minister on this issue we've witnessed more than five thousand people take to the streets all last week thursday there they were holding pack cards and chanting no to war in syria is afraid and what we're increasingly hearing from many experts who are pointing to the fact that the area in syria from where these mortars are being fired into turkey are areas that are being controlled by the rebels and that is why many expert opinion still suggesting that they're being fired deliberately to provoke to key into calling on nato to launch some kind of operation in syria and the irony of the situation is that we're now receiving expert opinion that many of the shells that are being fired from syria are in fact

being fired by weapons that turkey provided to the rebels to help them fight the assad regime so you have those rather i want to situation where turkey is being fired on by weaponry that itself supplied to the rebels in addition to those we're also now receiving several reports that the syrian army of the kurdistan workers party is holding an army just fifteen kilometers from the take the border now the fight to look just concentrated in northern syria has seen kurds take advantage of the situation they've already claimed several cities their economy they want independence from damascus but they have also not becoming a problem for two. taking of course is no stranger to the kurdish problem just have a nice case jets with flying. in northern iraq so here you have a situation where to keep its assistance to the rebels to fight aside is now having to fight and seen an escalation in that problem as well. are from syria now

to libya where a humanitarian crisis is developing the continuing siege of the town of bani walid a former khadafi stronghold that's left residents without vital supplies dr abdul hamid halasz on duty a member of the local council is inside the besieged city he gave us his account of what exactly is going on. you know. the ground your hundred. nautical can you get on it and there are going to. be. more you know. they're very happy. and we have been through. i'm good. you could do you know. they are. being slaughtered at the golden

gate. now the siege of bani walid started because the national congress wants to arrest the suspected murderers of the man credited with capturing colonel gadhafi the time has failed to hand them over but the siege is too strong a response exposing the government's we can us that's according to journalist james corbett. it just goes to show that deeply divided lines in the country right now tribally ethnically in terms of geography it's a deeply divided country and there are a number of different problems that are playing itself out politically in libya right now and this just goes to show once again that not only is libya ungoverned to a large extent at the moment but it is perhaps given its current political state ungovernable in this particular instance we have the prime minister being voted out in a vote of no confidence because he was unable to form a cabinet and basically this is due to both the pressures from the people themselves there was a popular protest movement basically saying that each individual city was complaining they were under represented in this proposed cabinet and you have the

political dealings with the major parties behind the scenes including an offshoot of the muslim brotherhood which is trying to get into a greater position of power in the country so there's a lot of power politics playing out and there's no easy solution on the horizon for the people and we are really the country is descending into a type of chaos that is really the predictable result of this type of regime change through violence that we've seen time and again throughout the past decade from afghanistan to iraq to libya and potentially now to war in syria. you're watching the euro zone's new pub and bailout fund is about to go live but cash strapped greece is still waiting for a long delayed loan payout as it negotiates yet new cuts of course these are spot new protests but athens has banned demonstrations in the city center during the german chancellor's visit on choose to alice talk to look. journalist and international public policy analyst joining us live here on r t thanks for coming on the program it's good to see you the cuts they keep on piling up on the greek

people with the government still insisting they are crucial for recovery do tell us here how long can this deadlock go on for well good afternoon from a shiny but rather turbulent. sector public sector and private sector unions are staging are about to stay. in additional quotas today you know athens your question is a very valid one the answer though comes from two sides one is to look at the numbers the other is to look at the people so if i have just a minute to go through the numbers we're speaking right now i currently have a seven point three public deficit and a public debt over one hundred sixty percent of the greek g.d.p. this is exactly the same for said percentage of public debt we had before the unusual story package in the ne shal be live in the meanwhile unemployment has reached twenty five percent and within the younger population it has skyrocketed to what are the first sentence. people as you're saying we have seen no major

reduction in the debt despite a well medicated onslaught of bailouts here but if i may for a moment athens is bracing for large scale protests for tuesday when angela merkel visits public gatherings in the center which houses the german embassy and the greek parliament for britain for the first time in decades why now they forbidding such demonstrations to take place indeed this is a very interesting question we have just received a couple of hours ago a communique did chris from the police. for a building basically. prohibiting the attendance of the public to the products so this means that you will have a major crowd of ordinary people of unions of unemployed who will like to have tanned the proctors in the context of the president of chancellor angela merkel but will not be able to do so it has been described by many analysts as

a direct strike to the very notion of democracy that was originally formed here in athens but a direct strike that of the whole of perhaps some i call it an illusion of democracy here but what but why stop the people demonstrating is it brooke because perhaps the politicians know the people have gone past the brain. of normal sanity and they're absolutely beyond sciri now with the ongoing cuts perhaps that's why look this is the fifth consecutive year greece is going through a harsh recession people do not accept any additional weight or any additional are cuts in the public sector means that they are not willing to keep negotiating for additional bailouts and for additional austerity measures these two numbers go hand in hand usually and i think that the greek government and of course the only police is afraid we might have some really troubling incidents including violent riots should the demonstration be allowed down so we have we've seen the cuts we've

seen the cuts go into the government sector as we've seen in education in health care in pension as well the cuts just keep coming why do the politicians of agree to accept belt outs for further cuts when as some are saying it's like filling a bucket with water when the bucket has a hole in it it just doesn't work. well usually as a politician you are asked to choose between two evils and i guess we're choosing the best of these two evils of the other one being defaulting completely on our national debt and basically these would mean we cannot go out and borrow money from international creditors and international markets that would be even worse in terms of a catastrophe now what has not been done though is these structural reforms does not necessarily cost money let's talk about corruption let's talk about tax evasion and let's not talk any more about read you seeing cutting additionally public sector

salaries in additional social benefits journalist look at german our thanks very much for coming on our to today a great pleasure. well meantime in the u.k. the welfare cuts are hitting the poorest citizens the hardest letter r t were reports on how charities used to feeding children in africa being forced to step in in britain and then business or russia prepares to warm households in the u.k. and in europe. that's right and it's planning to do so by launching the second pipeline in the lord stream gas project correspondent retirement the bank will bring you all the details in about ten. of these stories and much much more after a quick break hoping you can stay with us in just a few minutes. flying

north with me in this old soviet work course of a helicopter is dr vladimir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snow a wilderness as a boy here suffering favor and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies in that parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lana doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in atlanta they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native minutes

reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so a medical problem simply fixed here in the tent. they used to be but now we can go to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance are being treated the service costs fourteen million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service accusations vladimir firmly dismisses your brother is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals for waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but vladimir has come. the diva now after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north.

it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today i'm rory suchet live in moscow and cuts to benefits of squeezing the most vulnerable in the u.k. our recent data suggests fifteen percent of children regularly go without a hot meal but london's still eyeing ten billion pounds more in welfare cuts and as artie's laura smith reports despite intervention from charities things are only getting worse. for millions of children every year hunger is a death sentence this is save the children's usual campaign feeding starving youngsters in africa but times have changed and for the first time in its ninety three year history the charity has launched a major fundraising campaign here in britain and.

it's a watershed moment as recession hits the u.k.'s poorest children the hardest situation is pretty bleak for children and families out there in our children having to go without what we consider some basic essentials so for example new shoes when their old ones are for now it's achieving a warm coats him winter these are pretty shocking statistics in the u.k. in twenty twelve and we believe that we really need to take action in glasgow for the first time the cupboard is almost bare for mother of three share and more it's a daily struggle to provide the basics for her kids those times for her. they're in a good money she's not alone three and a half million children are living in poverty in the u.k. and a quarter of their parents say they've gone without meals so their children can eat . a child in poverty has to forgo the things other families take for granted eating

healthily having a friend round for tea days out natalie mother to two year old noah puts all she can afford into the gas meter but it's still not enough to heat their home it's cold but if they. keep warm in the house and blankets rather than turn the fire around no really is so far to charities calculate that the poorest ten percent of society they hate thirteen times harder by government cuts to services than the richest ten percent and growing up in poverty puts a child under enormous emotional strain their education suffers even a sit good school and that storing up trouble for the future you have the impact it has on those children but it's also a massive impact to society and to our economy and so you know we if we poverty rising we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of actual spending on

education spending on the n.h.s. . will be weaker because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing the welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for the increased spending on n.h.s. in years to come. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight hundred thousand more children will be dragged into poverty eradicating all the gains that have been made in the last ten years laura smith r.t. . and we'll get to the r.t. was update in just a sec for now though it was a tough political battle but again proved his socialist agenda in venezuela enjoys strong popular support he's just been reelected for president for a fourth time the polls massive turnout of over eighty percent showed just how

crucial the vote was for the nation our correspondent in caracas is lucic of. we're standing here on the streets of caracas just hours after president who does solve as immersed as the clear winner in this election he will be leading the country for another six years after millions of venezuelans set up their ballots now and stop a victory likely ensures that the current programs the president has put into place will continue that means the so-called twenty first century socialism experiments that help improve life for many of the poor many of whom are gathered here while the celebrations have been largely for the most part things actually a little bit stanford's you can see behind me people have probably drank a little bit they're gathering here on motorcycles and we know that the opposition candidate and we pick up the list has agreed to essentially that he said that he's not going to contest the election to president of ourselves as so it really remains

to be seen whether there will be any sort of street process or any sort of opposition rallies in the week except for the science offices economic policies promise of a rupture and thomas will improve ties with the west of course he didn't win a lot of support and that's because a lot of the people here feel that a lot of problems in the venezuela have still not been addressed there's a very high crime rates there are serious problems with corruption in the country and they're just not sure whether this will on the president be the solace for another six years as a really going to lead to improving those issues but of course for the supporters he does remain a sort of god like figure to some degree and here's a look as to why running water electricity and a real home having spent most of her life in venezuela slums these are luxuries that anna silva could only dream of before going out and when i got this apartment i just couldn't believe it i thought my eyes were deceiving me i'm thankful to this government for helping people like me she was able to move her family into this

home thanks to a housing program established under president to go childless. it's one of the many projects that earn. him tremendous popular support among the poor but alienated him from other voters the latter have turned out in droves to vote for him reeky come a wealthy businessman in a free market advocate who is pushing for more private enterprise and investment critics fear that he would bring an end to venezuela's twenty first century socialism so what we're looking at is an ongoing effort by the all venezuelan ruling class to turn back the clock represents the past he represents an attempt to move. away from a past their focus is attention on reducing inequality reducing poverty. but whether chavez has addressed that in the best way remains a question dollars having to help bring down the crime rate one of the worst in the world on employment and

a stagnating economy has turned many away from el commandante today when as well has corruption deficits we are some of the poorest people we want. this has been accused of authoritarianism suppressing the courts and silencing critics in the press. another burning issue in the country is the quality of employment among the poor the government does implement measures to support them but there are no jobs for those in the deepest poverty they receive government subsidies but there isn't enough investment both government and private to actually provide them with well paid jobs instead of just giving financial aid. it for the long neglected residents of venezuela slums free services may just trump over freedom this is wrong as well as body a part of the largest slum in all of latin america for decades thousands of venezuelans who live here have no access to any sort of medical care that is until i solve a social program to open clinics like this one here as well as get access to

doctors checkups and medical services free medicine for free here they helped me along to thank god and this company has helped a lot of people and a lot of. and here thank you to chairman has done a lot for us those missions are just incredible. these are illegal settlements the shacks and buildings are poorly built and for decades infrastructure was virtually nonexistent moster sprawled across the steep hills surrounding caracas but for people living out in those songs or barrios they used to be no where you can get down to the city to find work or go to school simply walking down those hills you think about an hour and how they used to be no public transportation until president has built these cable cars a little lifeline for venezuela's poor life in the slums may have improved but the country still has a long way to go voters have grown frustrated with the declining wages and scarce job prospects and reversing these trends in the next six years won't be easy lucy catherine of. venezuela. and over at r.t.

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almost twenty eight minutes past the hour you watch in business on our team russia is launching the second pipeline in the north stream project to ship gas to europe the second link laid on the bottom of the baltic sea well will double nordstrom's annual cost capacity to fifty five billion cubic meters are teased me tremendous

and co has all the details. gas indeed has started flowing through the second line of the nord stream gas pipeline indeed it's a capacity has been doubled to fifty five billion cubic meters which would be enough to basically provide twenty six million european households with heat and energy and it's also amounts to around fifty percent of what is right now being transmitted through ukraine see the one of the main goals of this project was to bypass transit countries like belarus and ukraine which at times were not so reliable partners for russia and supply gas directly to europe while the heads of four states russia germany the netherlands and france hailed the launch of the second line he said. it is indeed an exemplary check nicol achievement one of the most magnificent infrastructure projects in europe today the installation of this underwater pipeline required constant attention especially in regards to the

environmental impact of the construction in the north stream significantly strengthen european energy security by diversifying supply routes and dates this is a very expensive project a cost seven and a half billion euros to launch and several years five to be exact in order for it to reach full capacity. and earlier i spoke to the head of gas problems export branch and it's on them it's better and he said that it takes a lot of time in order to fill up a pipeline so therefore it hasn't yet been operating at full capacity and claims that russia needs to lower prices for europe as he said ridiculous have a sister will kind of thought it was a predictability to do leave you need to in the long form and. i would like to pull the lords are actually guess these three to the european level conflicts to stop socially below zero.